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Culturally Responsive Teaching: Tips and Strategies for Educators

Waterford

December 2003. Curriculum Inquiry, 2013, 43(1), pp. Urban Education, 2013, 48(4), pp. Interdisciplinary Journal of Teaching and Learning, 2013, 3(2), pp. September 2016. Educational Leadership, September 1995, 53(1), pp. Pewewardy, C., and Hammer, P.C. Culturally Responsive Teaching for American Indian Students.

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New Markets Venture Partners Adds $30 Million, Former Gates Foundation Executive to Edtech Fund

Edsurge

New Markets has supported 43 companies since its launch in 2003; edtech startups make more than 90 percent of its deals in the past five years, Palmer adds. Investments in edtech companies in 2016 totalled $945 million, according to estimates from GSV Capital, less than half of the $2 billion tally last year.

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Chinese New Year- What Animal Am I?

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

1929, 1941, 1953, 1965, 1977, 1989, 2001, 2013, 2025), you are likely to have these traits: thoughtfulness and a profound sense of decision making, you mean what you say, a smart communicator, "you always have the facts to defend your what you think—and rarely back down." If you were born in the Dragon year (e.g.,1928,

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New Markets Venture Partner’s Latest Edtech Fund Closes at $68 Million

Edsurge

It may have felt like a different world when New Markets began fundraising in January 2016. They last did so in 2013.) In 2016, both New Markets and Lumina invested in Credly’s seed round—marking Lumina’s first direct investment in a for-profit company. The firm aims to invest in up to another seven U.S.

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OPINION: Four ways that Mississippi is teaching more children to read well

The Hechinger Report

In 2003, the state began requiring future K-6 teachers to take two early literacy courses in their teacher-preparation training. A 2016 Governor’s Task Force on Teacher Preparation for Early Literacy Instruction set next steps for continued progress. Third, involve other stakeholders.

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What Your School Needs to Know About Trauma-Informed Practices

Waterford

Children & Schools, April 2013, 35(2), pp. School Mental Health, February 2016, 8(1), pp. Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 2003, 12(2), pp. Walkley, M., and Cox, T.L. Building Trauma-Informed Schools and Communities. Phifer, L.W., and Hull, R. Kassam-Adams, N., Berkowitz, S. Brymer, M.J.,

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The Asian Money Fueling US Edtech Investments

Edsurge

The “cultivation of students’ entrepreneurship and innovation capabilities and practical skills” was a priority in China’s 5-Year Plan for 2016-2020. billion in 2016, according to Goldman Sachs. million (A) 2016 Sinovation Ventures EnglishCentral $1.3 million (N/A) 2016 Kirihara Shoten K.K. 380 million tally in 2014.

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